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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Rei Sasaguchi</title>
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		<title>The human kindness of a foxy woman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rei Sasaguchi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nakamura Tokizo V]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ashiya Doman Ouchi Kagami&#8221; (&#8220;Mirror of the Imperial Court during the time of Ashiya Doman&#8221;) depicts the rivalry between two Heian Period characters Abe no Yasuna and Ashiya Doman. It was created as a bunraku by Takeda Izumo in Osaka in October 1734, but it was staged as a kabuki play in Kyoto in February [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lovesick nun, magic sandals and a vengeful ghost</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rei Sasaguchi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nakamura Fukusuke IX]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sumidagawa Hana no Goshozome&#8221; (&#8220;The Sumida River Adorned with Cherry Blossoms&#8221;) by Tsuruya Namboku IV (1755-1829), now showing at the National Theater of Japan, was written to be a blockbuster. It was created for the Ichimura-za theater in Edo in 1814, when kabuki was an extremely popular form of entertainment for the townsfolk. To excite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where cherry blossoms fall: Love, betrayal and tragedy at the Sumida River</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rei Sasaguchi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The play begins with Matsuwaka (Nakamura Hayato, 19) of the Kyoto-based Yoshida family. He is disguised as Yorikuni of the Otomo family, who is the fiance to princess Sakurahime (Nakamura Kotaro, 19) of the Iruma family. Sakurahime is also the younger sister of Matsukawa&#8217;s own betrothed, Hanako. (Fusuke IX). A fugitive charged with plotting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kabuki kicks off the new year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rei Sasaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Audiences at the Asakusa Kokaido venue in Tokyo have been welcoming 2013 in with some high culture. Ichikawa Ebizo XI opened the public hall&#8217;s program for the new year with a 45-minute piece titled &#8220;Kotobuki Soga no Taimen&#8221; (&#8220;The Soga Brothers Meet their Enemy&#8221;). The day-long program of kabuki consists of two parts, the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A principal of noh performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rei Sasaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The upcoming &#8220;Sakurama Kinki no Kai&#8221; is the 19th noh event in a series of performances by Sakurama Kinki of the Komparu School. Of the five noh schools still active today, the Komparu School is the most traditional, though it has, interestingly, taken the progressive step of accepting women. The school evolved in the Yamato [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kabuki&#8217;s 10th Mitsugoro shows off his family&#8217;s dance moves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rei Sasaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Bando Mitsugoro X (born Hisashi Morita, 56) succeeded to his current stage name 11 years ago, after the death of his father Mitsugoro IX. He was rigorously trained in Kabuki acting and dancing by his father, who had learned the trade under the renowned Onoe Kikugoro VI and Kikugoro&#8217;s head disciple, Onoe Shoroku. Mitsugoro is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big theater names and &#8216;Super Kabuki&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rei Sasaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At the start of the performances at Tokyo&#8217;s Shimbashi Embujo Ichikawa theater in June this year, Kamejiro II (born Takahiko Kinoshi), 36, took the name Ichikawa Ennosuke IV, while his uncle Ichikawa Ennosuke III, famously known as the founder of &#8220;Super Kabuki,&#8221; took the name Ichikawa En&#8217;o II. Like his predecessor, the new Ennosuke is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hayashi drums up a birthday performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rei Sasaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Eitetsu Hayashi, a pioneer in the field of taiko (traditional Japanese drumming), plans to showcase the results of 40 years of experience at a performance celebrating his 60th birthday next week. The program is called &#8220;Goringu: Ashita no tame ni&#8221; (&#8220;Five Rings: For Tomorrow&#8221;) a title derived from what Hayashi says are the universal elements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kabuki returns to its Asakusa home for special New Year&#8217;s performances</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rei Sasaguchi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As kabuki fans will already know, for more than 30 years, the Kokaido (public hall) in Asakusa has celebrated the Tokyo district&#8217;s history as a thriving entertainment area by reviving the Edo Period (1603-1867) tradition of New Year&#8217;s special kabuki performances. These shows have also become a great opportunity for younger actors to take on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo gets five rare takes on Kyoto tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The upcoming staging of NHK Enterprises&#8217; fifth &#8220;Gei no Shinzui&#8221; (&#8220;The Essence of Art&#8221;) series at the National Theatre in Tokyo promises a rare and rather sublime Kyoto treat for the capital&#8217;s lovers of traditional Japanese performing arts. Titled &#8220;Kyo no Miyabi&#8221; (&#8220;The Elegance of Kyoto&#8221;), the Aug. 23 production &#8212; which is in collaboration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The legacy of kyogen&#8217;s Okura tigers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noh, the Japanese theater form, is renowned for its highly stylized use of masks, elaborate costumes, literary and religious context, and difficult narratives. It&#8217;s also known for its incredibly long performances &#8212; traditionally taking up an entire day. Kyogen, short comic or satirical plays, served the purpose of breaking up those lengthy shows. And, like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young kabuki talent for the new year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most know Asakusa in Tokyo for Sensoji Temple and its surrounding souvenir arcades, but during the late Edo Period it was also the show business district of downtown Edo. Three kabuki theaters authorized by the shogunate competed in Saruwaka-cho, not far from Asakusa&#8217;s Kokaido (public hall), and they offered special New Year kabuki performances, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The history hidden behind the mask</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rei Sasaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kiyotaka Imai, 67, is a prominent noh performer from the Kongo School, which was established in the Kansai region during the 14th century, and headquartered in Kyoto. The son of the late Ikusaburo Imai, a Kongo noh master of the highest ranking (shokubun) and a designated Intangible Cultural Asset, Imai began to study noh while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From scorn to love: Mishima and bunraku</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yukio Mishima (born in 1925 as Kimitake Hiraoka) is best- known internationally for his novel &#8220;Kinkaku-ji&#8221; (&#8220;The Temple of the Golden Pavilion&#8221;), a fictionalized account of the burning down of the famous golden temple of Kyoto. He may also be remembered for his contemporary plays, many of which were translated and performed worldwide, and for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing samurai spirit and business acumen to kabuki</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 1, 2009, Kenzaburo Mogi, 72, a former vice chairman of the soy sauce manufacturing giant Kikkoman Corporation, was appointed to direct the Japan Arts Council, which covers all traditional performing arts of Japan, including noh, kabuki and bunraku (puppet theater). A soy sauce executive might seem an odd choice to oversee Japan&#8217;s traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When a priest loves a woman, he can do so much wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[T1 his year, the National Theater&#8217;s summer program &#8220;Kabuki Class&#8221; will be showing the 75-minute play &#8220;Narukami&#8221; (&#8220;Thunder God&#8221;), part of a classical play known as &#8220;Narukami Fudo Kitayamazakura,&#8221; originally written in 1742 by the Kamigata (Kyoto-Osaka) playwrights Yasuda Abun and Nakada Mansuke. Based on the Noh play &#8220;Ikkaku Sennin&#8221; (&#8220;Ikkaku, the Wizard&#8221;), it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A rogue on high</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In real life, Ishikawa Goemon was the leader of a band of burglars in Kyoto who was caught in the summer of 1594 trying to kill Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the foremost politician of his day, and was duly executed at age 36 along with many members of his family and his gang. Interestingly, that execution in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breathing life into the mythical shachihoko</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rei Sasaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1610, as ordered by Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, the shogunal main office of Owari province (present-day Aichi Prefecture) was moved from Kiyosu to Nagoya, where a new castle was built. To commemorate the beginning of this magnificent castle&#8217;s construction, which boasted a five-storied main tower crowned with a pair of large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How &#8216;new&#8217; kabuki has captivated theater audiences for decades</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1893, at age 78, the great playwright Kawatake Mokuami died. Since he left no protege, his death also ended the tradition of classical Kabuki writing. Mokuami, who, during the 19th century wrote more than 360 plays over his long career, became the last of the professional writers to work exclusively for Kabuki theaters in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swept away by the &#8216;Tenpesuto&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Tempest,&#8221; Shakespeare&#8217;s play of sorcery, was originally planned for bunraku puppet theater for the 1991 Japan Festival in London. The script was to be written by Shoichi Yamada (b. 1925), the former executive director of bunraku at the National Theater, using a Japanese translation by Tsubouchi Shoyo, a renowned novelist, dramatist and critic of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The monster that was made of fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rei Sasaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s a nue? A sobbing thrush? A splendid monster? Or the shattered souls of those excluded from society? In a fascinating two-hour play titled &#8220;Nue&#8221; by playwright Yoji Sakate, a nue is all three. Presented in the small auditorium at the New National Theater, Tokyo, through July 20, Sakate&#8217;s production is inspired by a noh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it a spider? Is it a monkey? Yes, it&#8217;s a work by Ennosuke</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a &#8220;kabuki class&#8221; for beginners, the National Theater of Japan is presenting in its large auditorium until June 24 a performance by Ichikawa Ennosuke, the master of &#8220;super-kabuki&#8221; productions, which he started to develop in 1986. The performance will be &#8220;Kaka Saiyuki&#8221; (&#8220;Kaka&#8217;s Records of the Journey to the West&#8221;) based on part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bunraku theater to celebrate an anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rei Sasaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hiragana Seisuiki&#8221; (&#8220;Records of the Battles between the Minamoto and Taira Clans in the 12th Century&#8221;), a five-act historical bunraku play by Bunkodo and collaborators, which was first staged at the Takemoto-za in Osaka in 1739, is being presented at the small auditorium of the National Theater in Tokyo till May 24. After introducing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Okinawan flavors of entertainment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manabu Oshiro, the chief of the Research and Training Section of the National Theater, Okinawa since 2006, attributes the creation of kumiodori, a form of drama unique to Okinawa, to the friendly relationship that the Ryukyu Kingdom maintained with China for over 400 years spanning the 15th to the 19th century. As far back as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Committed to the feminine craft</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[O ff stage, kabuki actor is a tall, handsome and sensitive- looking man with white hair but a young face. On stage, the respected onnagata (male actor who specializes in female roles) can be anything from a sexy concubine to a faithful spouse. Born Mitsuharu Ogawa in 1955, Nakamura made his debut at the Kabuki-za [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hitting skins to find sound&#8217;s color</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;It is amazing that I have participated in 12 out of the 31 performances of the &#8216;Nihon no Taiko&#8217; program that started at the National Theater of Japan in 1977,&#8221; says the drummer Eitetsu Hayashi, who helped start the wadaiko (Japanese drums used in festivals) boom that has lead to the formation of more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nihon buyo dancers pass on their culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As far back as elementary school, Yukari Hatori, now age 34, dreamed of becoming a nihon buyo (Japanese dance) performer. She had learned the basics of nihon buyo as soon as she could stand on her feet, receiving lessons from her father, Onoe Kikunojo II, head of the Onoe school of dance. The school was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kabuki-za&#8217;s Dankikusai festival: From romantic crimes to civilian sacrifices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like royalty, kabuki families can trace their lineages back years and years into the distant past, interrupted only occasionally by an adoption to keep a line going. This May the Kabuki-za holds the monthlong Dankikusai, a theatrical festival that was started in 1936 to commemorate the outstanding achievements of two dramatic giants in the Meiji [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A graceful step onto Edo&#8217;s stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Now that his life-long dream of having the stage name of Sakata Tojuro has come true, I think Tojuro aspires to revitalize the style of kabuki acting unique to the Kamigata (Kansai) region,&#8221; says Shoichi Yamada, the former executive director in charge of bunraku puppet theater at the National Theater. Having followed Tojuro&#8217;s career since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The faithful student</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I love Las Vegas shows,&#8221; says kabuki actor Ichikawa Kamejiro. &#8220;I go to Las Vegas because I think they use the most advanced techniques to create stunning productions. I find their attitude toward show business completely different from ours.&#8221; This comment might seem surprising for a kabuki practitioner, but 32-year-old Kamejiro&#8217;s uncle is Ichikawa Ennosuke, [...]]]></description>
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